Transwestern expands Southeast team; SRS pursues California retail business; Kolter hire eyes Western growth
Transwestern Real Estate Services appointed Nathan Knowles as an executive managing director and Southeast region leader. He's based in Atlanta. The company said Knowles will also serve as director of mergers and acquisitions as Transwestern seeks to expand its presence in Atlanta, South Florida, the Carolinas and Nashville, Tennessee. Knowles succeeds Bruce Ford, who assumed the role of chief operating officer in 2024.
Knowles joined Transwestern from Colliers, where he served as an executive managing director and principal after previously leading that company’s North American site selection services. Before that, he held leadership roles at JLL, Electrolux Group and General Electric. His hiring follows other recent Transwestern executive appointments in Chicago and Houston.
SRS Real Estate Partners hired Senior Vice Presidents Jeff Straka and Debra Hoppe, along with Senior Associate Hannah Rogers — all formerly with real estate services firm Main + Main — to serve as its new retail team in Newport Beach, California, specializing in tenant representation.
National development and investment firm Kolter Multifamily said it appointed Eric Veith, an industry veteran with prior work at firms such as Gables Residential, JLL and Pinnacle Advisors, as a Denver-based vice president for Colorado and Utah, who will oversee development, site acquisition and property management in the region.
New hires, promotions and other personnel changes
Global real estate investment management firm BGO appointed Dyice Ellis-Beckham — a 30-year industry veteran who held prior roles at HIG Capital and Invesco — as a managing director on BGO's U.S. capital raising team in New York. Ellis-Beckham will cultivate new client business in the Midwest and Eastern regions, BGO said.
Avison Young hired Jay Johnson as principal and executive managing director of healthcare services to oversee the firm's nationwide business in that sector from the firm's Atlanta office after he previously worked with JLL.
Houston-based Oxford Partners launched a new healthcare division and appointed Nelson Udstuen, who joined the firm after serving most recently as a senior vice president at CBRE, as the group's president.
Brokerage Lee & Associates opened an office in New Orleans that will be led by President and Managing Principal Evan Scroggs, of its Baton Rouge office, as it seeks to grow its Louisiana business in office, industrial, retail, self-storage and land transactions.
Facilities management firm ISS North America promoted Rick Green to head of culinary services at Guckenheimer, the company’s food service brand, where he will oversee corporate dining programs from the firm’s San Francisco office.
Hoar Construction hired industry veteran Jimmy Kennedy as a vice president to lead its Atlanta division after he previously worked with Batson-Cook Construction, where he worked on several major healthcare-related projects across the Southeast.